the maine event

Last week, I lost two sofas, a receiver, and a subwoofer from my mancave totaling $5800.  Pretty Bride lost over 1000 sewing patterns, a bunch of fabric, and a lot of other stuff that I didn’t know lived in our basement.  I spent a couple days ripping out walls and pulling up floors while vacillating [...]

son, your government’s writing checks the muskrat just cashed

In a surprising move indicative of fiscal irresponsibility last week, the National Guard sent me to Las Vegas for a conference.  I’d never been to Vegas before, but I met a couple bloggers at BlogHer who expressed a willingness to show me around, so I took them up on it.
I met Nancy from Fear & [...]

a glimpse into the life of a dark, slapshotting deity

“Fuck yeah!” was the reply to my “I think the military is sending me to your neck of the woods in a few weeks.  Want to meet up for some sushi or something?” email.
“A few weeks” ended last night.  I followed Trudie’s (my Garmin) instructions across town.  I laughed out loud at the sign showing [...]

jet-setter muskrat or how i learned to stop worrying and love the mommyblogger

I decided I wanted to go to BlogHer last week, because the cool kids I already knew were going, and I wanted to meet a couple people whose words I liked, and one person from my hometown I’d been trying to meet for months, and I figured I could write it off, now that I’m [...]

a brief performance

Thanks to Kathy at The Junk Drawer for telling me about this and to Heather from Confessions of a Coal Miner’s Granddaughter for recording it!
More to follow when I have time….

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